The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome to Hanska
Endion School In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Almelund Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jordan Brewery Complex
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Old School In Wolverton
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Red Wing Iron Works
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Little Marais Inn
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Sandstone
Moving Old Hibbing
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Meyer School In St Augusta
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Little Falls Depot
The Church of the Holy Cross
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Le Sueur Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Franconia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Brewery In Preston
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Cobden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Florence Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bend in the River Regional Park
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown